Sure, past some threshold HN goes down, and at that point there is a (big) difference between the logged-in and logged-out experience. My point is that, the res

Sure, past some threshold HN goes down, and at that point there is a (big) difference between the logged-in and logged-out experience. My point is that, the rest of the time, there is not, whereas for Wikipedia, the logged-in experience is always significantly worse than the logged-out experience. This encourages people to not log in which is a problem.